Matryoshka Representation Learning (MRL) is designed to support flexible representation sizes by jointly optimizing nested prefixes. While effective, this design lacks an explicit constraint to…
Harness development plays a crucial role in building capable AI agents. Recent approaches improve harnesses through recursive self-improvement (RSI), but their performance gains often come with…
General-purpose manipulation requires reliable behavior across embodiments, objects, and task demands. We introduce HandsOn, a composable simulation platform and benchmark for cross-embodiment…
Robotic value models assess task execution from visual observations and instructions, providing feedback for policy learning and execution monitoring. However, existing evaluations cover only…
Spatial intelligence requires agents to actively acquire visual evidence and integrate observations into a coherent representation of the three-dimensional world. Yet spatial question answering…
Rubric-based reinforcement learning (RL) trains policies for open-ended generation with natural-language criteria as rewards, but these rewards can become ineffective as training progresses. We…
Tool-using voice agents often leave users waiting after speech ends, even when actionable information arrives earlier in the request. Speculative approaches begin work during speech, but…
Video overlay removal aims to recover scenes obscured by subtitles, titles, and logos while preserving surrounding content. Existing methods use temporal propagation or source-conditioned generation,…
Large Language Model (LLM) agents are increasingly deployed in unfamiliar and evolving environments, requiring them to proactively explore, understand, and adapt to environmental dynamics. However,…
Experience generated during deployment offers an opportunity for robots to improve policy reliability through learning from their own executions. However, learning through human corrections requires…
We study language-conditioned local navigation, where a robot must navigate to a text-specified target visible in its initial observation and stop at the described location. End-to-end navigation…
LLM routing dynamically selects and coordinates heterogeneous language models across diverse tasks. However, existing approaches are largely built around a predefined execution paradigm, such as…
SNNs are attracting interest due to their potential for energy efficiency and event-driven processing. However, neuromorphic hardware is not yet mature enough to enable embedded deployment of complex…
We study turn-based deterministic zero-sum games with discounted and long-run average costs. For discounted costs, we establish exponential and superpolynomial iteration lower bounds for the simple…
Scientific inference often involves observations from multiple latent populations whose class memberships are uncertain and must be inferred from available data. While full Bayesian mixture modelling…
Quantifying uncertainty in time series forecasting is particularly demanding because sequential data exhibit temporal dependence and are prone to distributional changes. Conformal inference has…
As neuromorphic systems scale to thousands of near-memory cores, aging-induced permanent faults in neuron-update datapaths become an important obstacle to long-term deployment. Existing online…
Phone scams impose substantial and growing costs on individuals and financial systems worldwide, yet existing countermeasures impose no resource cost on perpetrators. Strategic scam-baiting, in which…
Recent time series foundation models (TSFMs) can consume covariates in-context, extending zero-shot forecasting to problems driven by external factors. This enables scenario analysis: forecasting how…
We study regret minimization in finite-horizon episodic Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). While minimax-optimal algorithms are known, tractable approaches to instance-dependent optimality are still…
Inference-time sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) decoding can improve the reasoning accuracy of masked diffusion language models (diffusion LLMs) without post-training by resampling a population of…